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  1. Re:Fix: Counter Suit on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    "Implicit" doesn't amount to shit in court. Rapists have used that excuse because they bought a couple of drinks so sex was "implied."

    Also, if the party is reasonalbly aware that you didn't read the notice, it's not binding - same as too-fine small print. So yes,ignorance is an excuse. If the judge has to put on his or her reading glasses to read it, it's too small to hold up in court.

  2. Re:Fix: Counter Suit on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    You're the one intentionally being a butt-head. This was openly marketed as spywere, not a "security tool to secure a computer or network" - which it can't do. Of course, being a butt-head, you didn't read the article. Butt out.

    As for the marriage vows, so what? People are allowed to change their minds. And when they do, their partner is free to dump their sorry ass. Atheists certainly don't hold to the idea of marriage as a traditional institution. And why bother listening to Christians, since they are demonstrably hypocrites, not just wrt adultery, but being the people who get 78% of all abortions. Hey, that's a lot of kids out of wedlock or "inconvenient."

    Also, stop being sexist - either sex can abandon the other. Happens all the time.

  3. Re:Fix: Counter Suit on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure - someone's going to worry about Maryland's $10 fine. That's basically a hall pass to screw around and pay the ticket.

    Nobody's been convicted in Massachussetts in more than 30 years, so good luck with enforcing that law.

    In South Carolina, it's only if you're living together with the other person IN South Carolina, or habitual sex with that other person. Hop over the border, a succession of one-night stands, etc., are all legal.

    Florida requires it be the much higher standard of "in an open state of adultery." Casual discrete affairs are legal. And if they do decide that you were living in an open state of adultery, the maximum fine is $500, and the maximum jail sentence is 60 days. Seriously, nobody has been prosecuted since 2006, and there's enough case law that it won't happen again.

    New York it's a crime, but only 13 people have been charged in the last 40 years, and you really have to work at it to get charged. Like the couple who were doing it on a picnic table in a park in broad daylight while kids were around..

    It's not very often you have people engaging in sexual activity in a park in broad daylight," said Officer Eric Hill of the Batavia Police Department. And when you do, presumably there is usually a bush or bushes or some other type of ground cover involved. But the 29-year-old man and 41-year-old woman in this case chose a picnic table, upon which they could be seen by others who were enjoying the park in a more traditional way. Families with children were visiting the park at the time, and one of them called police, although there is no indication that anybody checked to see if either of the picnickers had a living spouse.

    Nobody wants to look stupid wasting taxpayer money prosecuting people for adultery. The odds of finding a jury where nobody has committed adultery are pretty bad, which is why it's prosecuted as a misdemeanor, if it's prosecuted at all, in states where the accused doesn't have the right to a jury trial. Juries know that they could be in the same position, if they haven't already been.

    Those states that still have these laws need to wake up and stop acting like the Christian Taliban, especially since those who scream the loudest about the lack of moral rectitude are the same ones who are caught with their pants down on grindr, etc.

  4. Re:Making recordings on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    So, I'm an adult, I borrow your phone to make a phone call or for another purpose - guess what - you do NOT have the legal right to monitor my communications. And you most certainly don't have the right to monitor the communications of whoever I'm talking to. They come to harm because of it, they can sue your ass off because you don't have the consent of either party (so it doesn't matter if you live in a 1-party or a 2-party consent state).

    Also, if you're giving your teenage kids a bath and there's not a reasonable justification (like they're physically handicapped and need help), you're the one who's "really f*cked up". Kids should know how to take a dump, give themselves a bath, and brush their teeth well before they're teenagers. You "monitoring" them is creepy beyond doubt.

    Also, plenty of places allow minors to seek and receive medical care with neither the knowledge nor the consent of the parents or legal guardians. Here, a 14-year-old can get birth control or an abortion and the parents are not allowed to be informed without the child's consent. Kids are not property that you have absolute reign over.

  5. Re:Making recordings on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Both the kid uploading and the kid downloading can be charged with possession of kiddie porn. Maybe you should watch those ads on old-media TV warning kids )and their parents) of that.

  6. Re:If I can delete them. I don't care on Verizon Offered To Install Marketers' Apps Directly On Subscribers' Phones (adage.com) · · Score: 1

    1) You can buy phones unlocked at the big box stores.
    2) some jurisdictions require that the phone be unlocked after you've paid it off if it was subsidized.

  7. Re:If I can delete them. I don't care on Verizon Offered To Install Marketers' Apps Directly On Subscribers' Phones (adage.com) · · Score: 1

    You already have access to as many unique email addresses as you want. Any character in the sender name after a + is ignored, as are any dots.

    So, you can use joeblow@example.com, joe.blow@ example.com, joe.blow+sendername@example.com. Someone sends you an email with the +sendername, you know who the culprit is who sold your email address.

  8. Re:If I can delete them. I don't care on Verizon Offered To Install Marketers' Apps Directly On Subscribers' Phones (adage.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe, since Microsoft is no longer willing to support it, it should be legal to kill the need for product activation for those users who need to nuke and re-install. Same as when a car company no longer supports a specific car, you don't just throw it out - you get support elsewhere. Otherwise, would you really want to risk buying any vehicle, or any other product, with a 1 year warranty?

  9. Re:If I can delete them. I don't care on Verizon Offered To Install Marketers' Apps Directly On Subscribers' Phones (adage.com) · · Score: 1

    While I would normally agree with you, because freetards are retards, in the case of software that needs activation to reinstall if it develops the clap, it should be legal to break activation if the company is no longer willing to support it. It's no different than buying any other product and having the manufacturer no longer support it - you can always go to a 3rd party for repairs.

  10. Re:If I can delete them. I don't care on Verizon Offered To Install Marketers' Apps Directly On Subscribers' Phones (adage.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft had originally said, when their product activation schemes became too aggressive, that they would release the activation keys of Windows XP when it went out of support. They lied (what else is new?)

    You can still use XP for playing all your old games and applications off-line. The games don't care that the OS is out of support, same as the OS doesn't suddenly develop bit rot. If it develops the clap, you do the same as when it was supported - wipe and reinstall.

    It's the same story for any OS, from any maker. You don't have to install the latest patches - just don't do stupid stuff. Block ads. Use a 3rd party browser. Disable javascript and flash, or use a browser that has neither. Don't go looking for sex on the internet - you never know what you OR your computer will pick up.

    Worse case scenario, use it in a vm.

  11. Re:Making recordings on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Parents doing it to their minor children w/o consent of those is within their right of parents

    First, only stupid parents will do that. Second, no, it's not legal. You don't have the legal right to snoop on the person they are communicating with, and if your under-age kid is sending nudies of themselves, you've just committed a felony - downloading and possession of kiddie porn.

    Kids won't learn trust and boundaries if you don't demonstrate trust and respect their boundaries. Will they screw up? Most likely, same as I'm sure you did when you were their age.

  12. Re:Fix: Counter Suit on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    There's no law requiring anyone to refrain from having sex with someone they are not married to. This is true even for married couples. Catching a spouse having an affair behind your back sucks, and if it were against the law, I'd have a couple of scalps nailed to the wall somewhere, but your suspicions don't give you the right to intercept someone else's communications. They also don't give you the right to invade their privacy. Marriage (or any relationship) doesn't give you the right to act like an asshole and spy on someone. Think of how your children would feel if they caught you doing that sort of sh*t, reading their diaries, installing spyware to track them, etc.

    I hope that the spyware company is nailed to the wall. Then we can go after other spyware businesses, such as Facebook, who track you all over the web, and not just on their site; Google, who also tracks you wherever you go to "serve up personal ads" (that may contain a virus); Microsoft, who is doing their best to monitor what you are doing with your own computer; your ISP for keeping records of your online activity.

    And let's hope the advertisers get nailed as involved 3rd parties, because none of this would be happening if they were limited to plain text and ordinary images with just a link, no javascript, no fancy urls giving the ad server or anyone else enough information to match up the viewer with a specific profile.

    Because let's be honest - someone cheats on you, it's not that hard to dump them, but these businesses ... they're worse than bedbugs and cockroaches. The only way to be sure is to burn everything to the ground.

  13. Re:If I can delete them. I don't care on Verizon Offered To Install Marketers' Apps Directly On Subscribers' Phones (adage.com) · · Score: 1

    https://support.microsoft.com/...

    That would be because Windows 7 has been out of mainstream support (when they actively sell it) for more than a year.

    And whose fault is that? Microsoft's. Let's put the blame where it lies. They want to (not so) slowly move people to OS-as-a-service. Older OSes don't suddenly stop working because they're out of mainstream support. Look at how many people are still running XP without a problem.

  14. If I can delete them. I don't care on Verizon Offered To Install Marketers' Apps Directly On Subscribers' Phones (adage.com) · · Score: 2

    If on the other hand I can't, the phone's going to get unlocked and rooted. All carriers should take note - we're getting closer to a discontinuity in how much we're willing to be abused.

  15. Re:Very Basic Income on A Bit of Cash Can Keep Someone Off the Streets For 2 Years or More (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    No, it's retarded of you to think that just because someone (even an infant) isn't working, it doesn't need to be supported. Hence the need for a basic income - how do you expect parents without a job to support their kids?

  16. Wow - you are really, REALLY stupid. Correlation is not causation. Just because there appears to be a superficial correlation does not mean they have the same causes - especially when the cause of transsexualism is known to be biological, something you can't admit because it would expose your bigoted views to yourself.

  17. If you had actually read the article, you wouldn't be asking. Same as if you had read all the references to discoveries in the last 20 years, we might not be having you ask me to spoon-feed you.

    You must have a really hard time constructing good search terms on google. No wonder you keep coming up with out-of-date crap.

  18. Re:Very Basic Income on A Bit of Cash Can Keep Someone Off the Streets For 2 Years or More (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Of course I'm including retirees and minors. Don't be a retard. They still need money to live, and services provided to them, and less than half the population is working to support all the expenses of society.

    That's one of the prime complaints of the millennials - there are fewer of them, and they're stuck paying for a much larger baby boomer population. When only 1 in 32 people was retired, it was no big deal. But with less than half the population working to pay for roads, hospitals, and other infrastructure, plus all the social programs that benefit the retirees,

    When you write "you demand every man and woman capable of doing anything go out and get a job", you lie. Blatant, bald-faced, liar. I have argued for a minimum income for all, because in the future there simply will not be enough jobs for everyone who wants to work. More education won't fix that - once demand is met, all you have is wage competition driving wages lower. And the trend is to continue to reduce the need for labor in all jobs, from truck drivers and waiters to surgeons. How many cancer specialists will be needed if we discover a cure for cancer? A lot less, and fewer radiologists, attending staff, etc. These used to be considered secure jobs, unautomatable. Not any more. That isn't going to deter us from trying to find a cure.

    There is no job that is safe, except for politicians. They'll make sure that their jobs are secure, no matter what.

    So quit your lying about me being in favor of wage slavery. I'm pro-union. Even once had a union card with the Steelworkers. You can't get much more union than that.

  19. It's perfectly legal here for both sexes to go around topless. We also have nude beaches that anyone can use. And obviously, there's sex going on there - to the point that one of my former neighbors bragged about it every chance he got, with pictures, even though both I and several other women told him we didn't want to see them (he'd sneak them into a stack of other pictures to show us).

    As for the bathroom bills, it was not any law that allowed people to choose - this was started by religious groups at the turn of the century. Before that, it wasn't on anyone's radar. The laws allowing choice were passed in reaction to previous bathroom bills. A good example was Maryland, where religious groups, who in 2007 started pushing against transsexuals, staged incidents in 2008 by having men dress as women and going into women's areas. They got caught, and it was in reaction to crap like this that a law was passed allowing transsexuals to use the bathroom matching their identity.

    Fortunately the provincial human rights commission has defended our rights to go where we should be going, instead of where bigots want us to go, for at least a quarter-century.

    So no, you're lying again when you claim it was a law that allowed people to choose their bathroom that started the whole anti-bathroom bills thing. Until religious groups pushed, there was no law against us using the bathroom that matched our identity. The only thing, from a point of safety if someone was determined to cause a problem for us, was to carry a doctor's note explaining the situation and that we are to be treated in all respects the same as any other woman.

    Again, you know shit.

  20. You never heard of using the search function in your browser? Wow, you must be stuck in the '80s. And you must be unable to believe that an atheist can even quote the bible when appropriate, and finds the Christian Science Monitor (widely recognized for their reporting) a valid news source. Their staff have won 7 Pulitzers. Unlike you, I judge by the facts, not the messenger.

  21. They do NOT have the same underlying cause. Genes failing to trigger the testes to release testosterone during the 12th week has NOTHING to do with BIID.

    Of course, it is your reading comprehension that is a failure, because you are unable to bring yourself to understand that science has found the underlying basis for transsexualism, and it has nothing to do with any sort of mental disorder.

    So how's it feel still living in the 20th century? Dial-up internet, no smart phones, CBT not being all that widely deployed as the most effective treatment ever for PTSD, many doctors still believing that stomach ulcers were caused by psychological stress (mental cause) instead of a bacterial infection (physical cause), no same-sex marriage, vcrs, floppy drives, teeny-tiny hard disks, almost no ram, ...

    You are willfully ignorant of what's been going on in science since the mid-90s on this whole topic, despite claiming you are well informed on t, and you've put your ignorance on display for the whole world to see. And that is why it's right to call you a prejudiced bigot - you can't put aside your wrong "facts" in the face of new findings over the last 2 decades, instead acting like any other bigot.

  22. And yet BIID is not transsexuality. You're the one who brought BIID into the conversation, trying to imply that the two were the same. And no, people do not think there is a common pathology, because now transsexuality is not thought of as pathological. Hasn't been considered as such since 2013, a year after your citation. Out of date citations, even recent ones, don't prove shit, though they prove you don't know shit about the topic.

  23. Your debunking failed. And the arguments about genetics were to disprove your lies.

    And if you had read the entire article, you would have known there was a WOMAN who had elective surgery for BIID, not some guy.

    You can't seem to even read properly. But we already knew that, since you reject all the scientific evidence that refutes your beliefs, because you can't come to grips with it proving you wrong.

  24. Dodging the truth again ... tsk tsk tsk. My facts beat your lies, and now you try to save face by coming up with excuses - and those excuses fail to address that your original post was ignorant and offensive. You started it, and now you're running away from it. Coward.

  25. unpaid interns wanted for 3-5 years on Billionaire Launches Free Code College in California (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    How is someone between 18 and 30 supposed to survive long enough to do this program - one that doesn't even give you an accredited piece of paper - if they're doing 12 hour days 6-7 days a week?

    My bet is that after the trial period, the "survivors" will be doing 3 to 5 years of commercial coding for free as their "lessons". That's shittier than an internship.